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10:06:45 [01:06:12] DAS GHETTO. Warsaw Ghetto scenes (includes b/w version of scenes that exist in color) Unusual views. Torah taken from ark. Men in prayer shawls, praying. Building of ghetto wall; amateur footage. Ghetto bridge, people crossing. Checkpoint, ghetto wall. Pass inspected. Interiors of dwellings, from German propaganda coverage. Children, food, starving in streets. Begging. German officer walking along street. Begging ragged woman with child in arms. 10:12:09 [01:11:36] Children caught smuggling vegetables, shaken down by Germans in street. Jewish police take smuggler children to jail: Sign: "Arrest Anstalt." Interiors. Bodies collected from streets. Germans glimpsed in street. People pass bodies, beggars in street. Bodies onto cart, near ghetto wall. 10:14:52 [01:14:20] Morgue or collection place for corpses. Carts, wheeled to cemetery, put down chute into pit. 10:15:45 [01:15:13] Aktion, or at least rapid movement of Jews by Jewish police. Boys, women, out of prison and in streets (perhaps a little more than in Library of Congress footage of the Warsaw Ghetto).

10:16:47 [01:16:15] DER AUFSTAND. Series of still photographs from Stroop Report - no moving images of uprising or the end. 10:18:16 [01:17:44] Pan of ruins of Warsaw ghetto.

10:35:17 [01:34:46] DER TRANSPORT. Westerbork, Netherlands, and Warsaw, Poland, intercut scenes of deportation of Jews by Germans. Massing people at railroads, loading onto freight cars, closing doors, departures. Close views of trains moving off, railway tracks. 10:39:40 [01:39:03] Still photographs of Auschwitz Birkenau and arrivals. 10:39:45 [01:39:15] to 10:39:52 [01:39:22] Footage of Westerbork, men getting out of trains. More stills of arrival at Auschwitz, from the Auschwitz Album.

10:40:37 [01:40:07] DAS LAGER. Postwar scenes and stills of deaths on the electrified wires. Aerial views photographed by American planes. Soviet air views over barracks at time of liberation. Survivors, after liberation; people struggling over food. Still photos of women with heads shaved; forced labor inmates. Various stills of slave labor in camps, overseen by Germans. Punishment, musicians, scenes inside with slogans and signs; shower heads. Zyklon B cans, ovens.

10:46:18 [01:45:48] DIE OPFER. Scenes following liberation: the dead and the living. The children in Auschwitz.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of film documents from Chronos-Media GmbH in Potsdam, Germany in 1989. Film and Video staff ordered videotape transfers in November 1991.

Note

protection tape: 01:00:04-01:50:20See Film ID 148 for Part 1 of "Der gelbe Stern" (with original German audio & narration). See Film ID 149 for excerpts and clips (without sound) used for compiling "Der gelbe Stern." See Story 3716, Film ID 2576 or Story 2789, Film ID 2430 for entire film.

Timecodes starting with 10: refer to the Master and User (VHS) copies. Timecodes starting with 01: refer to the Protection (Beta SP) copy.

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.